“Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.” – Thomas Wolfe

“Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots.” – Nicholas Culpeper

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” – Pablo Picasso

“If you cut down a forest, it doesn’t matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.” – Susan George

“Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.” – Jessamyn West

“Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.” – Philip James Bailey

“I cry out for order and find it only in art.” – Helen Hayes

“Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.” – Tertullian

“The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.” – Robert M. Pirsig

“The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can’t have both.” – Ben Hecht